Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender

Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender (10 March 1932-6 February 2019) was private secretary to Prime Minister Harold Wilson and a Labour Party life peer in the House of Lords from 11 July 1974 to 6 February 2019.

Biography
Marcia Field, born in 1932, became secretary to the General Secretary of the Labour Party in 1955 and then became private secretary to MP Harold Wilson a year later. In 1964, after Wilson became Prime Minister, Field rose to be his political secretary and head of the political office. She was a grey eminence behind him, influencing Labour's decision to attack Queen Elizabeth II in the aftermath of the 1966 Aberfan disaster as a means of deflecting criticism from Labour to the establishment; she also had Wilson appoint several of her friends as peers. She herself became a life peer in the House of Lords in 1974, and she died in 2019.